Weighted sample tab



- March 7, 1939. s. E. BENDER WEIGHTED .SAMPLE TAB Filed Feb. 28, 1958INVENTOR In}? ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 7, 1939 UNITED STATES ATENT 8Claims.

This invention relates to weighted sample tabs, and the method ofproducing such weighted tabs.

The prime object of this invention is to produce a highly attractivedisplay article in the shape of a weighted sample tab, which may beemployed either individually or in conjunction with similar tabs in theform of a sample book or card, and wherein sample material of anydescription, but preferably fabrics of light weight, may be effectivelydisplayed for the purpose of ascertaining their color, quality, weight,transparency, softness or other qualities discernible by touch, andwhich tab in addition is held normally stretched by a small weight.

Another important object of this invention is the process whereby suchweighted sample tab may be efiicaciously and inexpensively produced.

The foregoing and still further objects and important advantages of thisinvention will become more fully apparent from the ensuing description,in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, which latter however isintended to serve more or less as aid for explaining the processemployed and the article produced thereby.

Referring now to the drawing,

Fig. 1 illustrates a sample card or book provided with my weightedsample tabs.

Fig. 2 illustrates a pattern, skeleton or mask as employed in the methodof producing my weighted sample tab.

Fig. 3 illustrates a portion of the compressed patterns used in myprocess for holding sample material, ready for cutting individual tabstherefrom.

Fig. 4 illustrates a number of partially cut-out sample tabs,preparatory to applying them to the book or card.

Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional View through a portion of the preferred formof a tab, taken on lines 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 illustrates an individual sample simplified construction, and

Fig. '7 is a cross-sectional view therethrough, taken on lines 1-4 ofFig. 6.

In order to produce individual weighted sample tabs, such as shown inFigs. 1 and 4, in a practical and economical manner in what may betermed quantity production, it is necessary to employ an expeditiousmethod. Such method is indicated in the drawing.

I preferably produce sample tabs for light material, such as used inwomens stockings, in multiple thicknesses or layers, inasmuch as thequality, transparency, as well as the color may be tab of a more readilyjudged in this manner. However,

for other materials single layers of samples may suffice.

Referring to the drawing, I will describe, as a typical example, themethod I employ in the production of weighted sample tabs for stockingmaterial. I prepare a plurality of patterns, skeletons or masks such asshown at I!) in Figs. 2 and 3. These patterns constitute sheets of paperor cardboard which are provided with rectangular perforations or windowsll. All perforations. of all patterns are intended to register when thepatterns are laid upon one another.

In producing sample tabs for light stocking material, it is preferableto use a double layer of material, in which case I employ three patternsi. e. two outer patterns and one inner pattern. The two outer patternsare preferably gummed at their inner faces or are provided with anyother suitable adhesive, while the intermediate or inner pattern may beungummed, but may also be provided with an adhesive at both faces,especially when the sample material is relatively thick.

One of the future outer patterns is laid flat with the gummed faceupwards. Now I prepare a number of strips of stocking material ofvarious shades and structures. I now take different strips i2, I3, l4,l5, it, etc. and lay them over the prepared pattern in parallel, spacedrelation to one another so that the strips traverse openings I I. Whenthe entire pattern is thus covered with the first layer of differentsample strips, I superimpose, in registry with the lower pattern, theinner or intermediate pattern; next I apply another row of sample stripsover the already placed strips so that each two overlying strips willregister.

Needless to say that the materials of the overlying strips must be thesame as that of strips already placed. The double sample strips are heldin their fiat position in any suitable manner, and while thus held, thethird pattern, which is the second outer pattern, is placed in registrywith the already deposited patterns. Now the three layers of patterns ormasks, holding in between them the stretched double strips of samplematerial, are forcibly compressed, preferably under the influence ofheat, whereby the gummed surfaces of the patterns are caused to adhereto one another. Thus the sample strips are permanently fixed in-placebetween the patterns.

Now the sample-holding mask is cut so that individual, weighted sampletabs are produced. This cutting operation is indicated in broken linesin Fig. 3, where a portion of the finished mask is denoted at M. Forsample cards or sample books,

as illustrated in Fig. 1, it is preferable to keep the upper portions ofthe sample tabs together, for which reason the cut, indicated in brokenlines at I1, is made throughout the length of one bar of the mask.

In order to provide the future sample tab with an individual weight andreinforcement at the bottom of the sample, it is required that the maskis out along broken lines, indicated at iii. The article resulting fromthese throughcuts ii and I3 is illustrated in Fig. 4, in which will beseen a relatively broad reinforcing bar 26 at the top edges of tabs 2!,while their lower free edges are reinforced by a relatively narrowportion 22 of the mask material, which lower reinforcement serves asweight for the tabs.

It is clearly understandable that the sides of the tab material must befree, as well as the lower weighted tab edge. Thus each of the tabs whendisplayed in a book or on a card, such as shown in Fig. 1, may bereadily observed and tested individually, and the color and texture ofone tab may be conveniently compared with that of the adjoining tabs,while the tabs repose against their common background. Where however itis desirable to subject the material to touch in order to ascertainother qualities of the material, or when it is required to look throughthe material, the tabs are lifted and may be thus subjected to a morescrutinizing inspection. Normally, tabs lie fiat or hang down, asindicated in Fig. 1. The construction shown in that figure is meant forsample cards where a great number of different shades and qualities ofmaterial is to be displayed. For individual tabs, such as illustrated inFigs. 6 and '7, the same process applies, except that bar 29 of the maskwill be severed and shortened as shown at 28' in Fig. 6.

The description of the method for producing sample tabs in the mannerindicated in connection with Figs. 2 and 3 calls for the employment ofthree layers of patterns, whereby the two layers of the sample materialare spaced by the intermediate pattern, so as to facilitate the handlingof each sample layer more readily. This however is not absolutelyrequired, and it is quite feasible to employ a double layer of samplematerial without the spacer pattern. Such construction is illustrated inFig. 7 where only the top and bottom patterns are utilized for producingreinforcements at the upper and lower edges.

When the material is of relatively heavy textile, only one layer isrequired, in which case the reinforcement may be applied either to bothfaces at the opposite edges of the sample or to only one face of theseedges, in which event a somewhat heavier pattern material is chosen.Such construction is not shown as it is quite obvious. On the otherhand, where more than two sample layers are required for adequatelydisplaying the material, more than one intermediate pattern may beadvantageously utilized. In every event, however, it is essential thataccording to my invention, the sample tab must have a relatively broadreinforcement at one edge, a relatively narrow reinforcement at theopposite edge, while the lower edge and the sides of the sample tab arefree, Whereas the upper edge is adapted or intended for attachment to asupport, such as a card or sample book, and wherein the reinforced loweredge serves as weight and stiffening and stretching means for thematerial.

In the foregoing description I have described a specific process of myinvention and specific forms produced by my process. It is obvious,however, the sample tabs for difierent goods may require modifiedtreatment in their production, leading however to the ultimate result ofa weighted sample tab, for which reason it may be required in the courseof manufacture to alter or improve the presently described method, and Itherefore reserve for myself the right to make changes and improvementstherein without departing from the broad scope of my invention, asdefined in the annexed claims.

I claim:

1. The method of producing weighted sample tabs, which consists ofpreparing three sets of like patterns, skeletons or masks fromreinforcing or stiffening material in the form of sheets havingelongated perforations, the perforations of all patterns being adaptedto register, the inner faces of the future outer patterns being providedwith adhesive matter, placing parallelly a plurality of strips of samplematerials over one of the outer patterns so that the strips traverse,but do not fill the elongated perforations, leaving free thelongitudinal edges of the strips, placing another, inner pattern, inregistry with the first pattern, over the strips of sample material,placing similar sample strips over the inner pattern, but in registrywith the first laid strips, covering the now double layer of strips withthe other outer pattern, compressing the now samplefilled patterns so asto cause them to adhere and so that the samples are securely heldbetween them, and severing or cutting the now united, sample-holdingpatterns so as to form individual tabs of sample material, which arejoined at one of their edges and free at their three other edges, andreinforced and weighted by the pattern material at their edges oppositeto their joined edges.

2. The method of producing sample tabs with a stiffened and weightededge, which comprises placing parallelly spaced strips of two layers ofsample material over the gummed face of a precut pattern havingelongated perforations, so that the longitudinal edges of the stripsremain free covering the applied strips with a correspondinglyperforated, interiorly gummed pattern so that the perforations register,causing the patterns to adhere and to hold the strips, and severing thenow united, strip-holding patterns into individual tabs having arelatively broad reinforcement at their upper edges, a relatively narrowreinforcement at their lower edges, and being free at their sides.

3. The method of producing weighted sample tabs, which comprisessecuring between two perforated, registering, interiorally adhesivepatterns, parallel strips of sample material, so that the longitudinal,parallel edges of the strips remain free, and severing the nowstrip-holding patterns into individual tabs so that one edge of the tabswill retain a relatively broad portion of the pattern material, whilethe other edge will retain a narrow strip thereof.

4. The method of producing weighted sample tabs, which consists ofsecuring to a mask, provided with elongated perforations, a plurality ofparallelly disposed, spaced strips of sample material so that the stripstraverse said perforations, while their longitudinal, parallel edgesremain free, severing the strips and said mask into relatively shorttabs so that a relatively broad portion of the mask material forms areinforcement at one edge of the tab, and a relatively narrow portion ofthe mask'material forms'a reinforcement and weight at the opposite edgeof the tab,

and both sides of the tab are free of the mask material.

5. The combination with a sample card, of a plurality of sample tabssecured with one of their ends to the upper edge of the card, the otherend and the sides of the tabs being free, their lower ends having asegmental reinforcement serving as weight for the tabs, the tabsconsisting of at least two layers of sample material.

6. The combination with a sample card, of a sample tab consisting of adouble layer of sample material, the upper edge of the sample tab beingsecured to the upper edge of the card, the sides and the lower edge ofthe tab being free, its lower edge being provided with a segmentalreinforcement serving as weight for the tab.

7. In a weighted sample tab for attachment to sample cards, a multiplelayer of sample material in strip form, the longitudinal, parallel sidesof which being free, the upper and lower ends of the tab having exteriorand interior reinforcements for holding flat and stretching the layersof sample material, the reinforcement of the upper tab end beingrelatively broad and oblong in form, while the reinforcement at thelower tab end is relatively narrow and. segmental in shape.

8. In weighted sample tabs for attachment to sample cards, a pluralityof parallelly arranged sample tab units, each unit consisting ofmultiple layers of sample material strips, the longitudinal, parallelsides of the strips being free, as well as their lower ends, interiorand exterior reinforcements provided at the upper and lower ends of thestrips, the upper end reinforcement being relatively broad andcontinuous and connecting the tabs, the lower tab reinforcement beingindividual for each tab and consisting of a relatively narrow, segmentalshape, serving as weight for each tab.

SYDNEY E. BENDER.

